It has been hypothesised that human adults, infants, and non-human primates share two non-verbal systems for enumerating objects, one for representing precisely small quantities (up to 3†” 4 items) and one for representing approximately larger quantities. Recent studies exploiting fish's spontaneous tendency to join the larger group showed that their ability in numerical discrimination closely resembles that of primates but little is known as to whether these capacities are innate or acquired.
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%A Bisazza, Angelo
%A Piffer, Laura
%A Serena, Giovanna
%A Agrillo, Christian
%D 2010
%I Public Library of Science
%J PLoS ONE
%K animals fish mathematics
%N 11
%P e15516+
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0015516
%T Ontogeny of Numerical Abilities in Fish
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015516
%V 5
%X It has been hypothesised that human adults, infants, and non-human primates share two non-verbal systems for enumerating objects, one for representing precisely small quantities (up to 3†” 4 items) and one for representing approximately larger quantities. Recent studies exploiting fish's spontaneous tendency to join the larger group showed that their ability in numerical discrimination closely resembles that of primates but little is known as to whether these capacities are innate or acquired.
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